Amos Yong
Biography
Amos Yong wrote The Spirit of Creation, The Dialogical Spirit, and The Missiological Spirit.
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Christianity and Religious Plurality
World Religions
“While the relativistic ideology of religious pluralism has been rightly subject to critique for the last generation, evangelical theology has yet to come to grips with the fact of religious plurality and its implications for Christian theology and witness in the present time. Shenk and his colleagues here provide historical, missiological, and global perspectives on this phenomenon, not only showing what we can learn from how others before us have responded, but also indicating how the plurality of our neighbors can be a source of our own revitalization. The cases covered in this book will never be dated!”
Christianity and Transforming States
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book unveils that there are as many Christianities as there are nation-states since each of the latter features both evolving histories of Christians in relationship to the state and shifting majority-to/from-minority positionalities of Christians across national demographic spectrums. Scholars of World Christianity, religion and politics, and political/public theologies, among those working in related fields, will benefit from these interdisciplinarily researched and presented case studies.”
History & Biography
“Scholars of contemporary Indian missiology and Church history, owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Roger Hedlund, in his several avatars as a researcher, a guru [teacher], an Editor and, foremost, I would say, as a writer. His two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Christianity is a monumental work, unique for the range of its contents. Just the number of experts from about all denominations in South Asia he could persuade to write for the Encyclopedia gives it a permanent place on the Reference shelf of every Seminary, Bible College, Contemporary Cultural Studies and History department. “India is an extremely dynamic sub-continent -- in the fluidity of its politics, and the impact that political processes of the last hundred years have had on issues of religion especially of the Christian faith. The Freedom movement of the early 1900s, the Partition of the subcontinent in 1947 with its terrible bloodshed and the forced but incomplete exchange of populations, and the economic migrations of the last decades of the 20th century have seen deep, and still not fully explored, changes in the religious topography. “Dr. Hedlund with his long stay and continuing refresher visits to India has kept abreast of these developments, adding his scholarship and enquiry and often encouraging others to map the changes. The many scholars, especially in the southern states, he has in his long career identified, and guided, ensure his lasting impress in this area that is so important to the church, and critical for those engaged in ensuring freedom of faith in the country.”
“Nell Sweeden is one of the few theologians . . . bold enough to join minority and other voices of color to address issues related to immigration that will remain central for the next generation. Her constructive proposal for a hospitable ecclesiology is neither sentimental nor oblivious to the theoretical-theological and practical challenges on the horizon . . . Sweeden's book inspires the evangelical church to press forward in hope.”
Theology
“Cleansing the Cosmos is scientifically informed, philosophically sophisticated, theologically robust, biblically faithful, and practically relevant! Scholars and practitioners across the academic spectrum will be challenged to reconsider what is known about spiritual warfare. With this book, the scholarly discussion on the perennially difficult topic of the problem of evil takes a quantum--even if chaotically counteractive--leap forward.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Questions about 'the one' and 'the many' have persisted over millennia. Some in monotheistic traditions emphasize the former, to the exclusion of the latter; in reaction, philosophies and theologies of pluralism have emerged more recently exploring 'the many,' but they verge onto political anarchism and consumerist excess. Marcia Pally's Commonwealth and Covenant opens up a broad and generous middle way, one that is interdisciplinarily informed, historically rooted, philosophically robust, and theologically foundational. Any sustainable program for a common global future will need to heed and implement in some respect this relational vision.”
World Religions
“These pages invite followers of Jesus into a global conversation, one that seeks to live deeply into Jesus' message while being nurtured and transformed by the Confucian way. Confucius for Christians is a model of evangelical faithfulness that embraces rather than shuns the wisdom of others in a pluralistic world.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Creating a Missional Culture is about cultural analysis, leadership formation, congregational empowerment and missional engagement. JR Woodward blends head, heart and hands to reinvigorate the church. I highly recommend this book for those studying missiology, ministry and ecclesiology.”
Preaching & Worship
“Christian preaching in the twenty-first century will need to be what Alcántara calls intercultural, and his Crossover Preaching bridges oral and literary cultures, racial and ethnic divides, and theory and practice. May the exemplar of Alcántara?s analysis here inspire many to improvise homiletically under the power of the Spirit for the next generation.”
Disability and the Way of Jesus
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Disability comes not in one but many forms, so it should not be surprising that the message of Jesus as healer is good news to people with disabilities in more ways than just that they might be cured (what temporarily able-bodied people, those not disabled, usually presume). Disability and the Way of Jesus shows how different first century and contemporary readings of the Gospels envision holistic healing and empowers the church to live more fully into such good news so it can be a more welcoming space for all people.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“To what degree has the church in North America been disabling leadership due to its presumptions that people with disabilities are more followers rather than given gifts of leading? Draper, Michele, and Mae here pull back the curtain on their own experiences navigating these questions as such persons called to ministry with other temporarily enabled individuals, and they invite the rest of us into a more welcoming community that envisions and embodies more inclusive ways of following in the footsteps of Jesus the Messiah in the present time.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“If American Protestants have been polarized between progressive-liberals on the 'left' and conservative evangelicals on the 'right,' Lee and Dearborn and their colleagues have broken through this either-or, not merely in pointing out that the middle is a much more expansive spectrum than just another stance, but in showing that both commitments to biblical and theological orthodoxy and attentiveness to the contemporary world and its complex realities require the virtuous practice of spiritual discernment, one that is faithful to the gospel rather than beholden to any ideology or tradition.”
Theology
“Daniel Lee writes especially for his Asian American sisters and brothers, church leaders, and fellow theologians and colleagues. Yet I hope many non–Asian Americans read this book, not to eavesdrop on our conversation but to attend to how Doing Asian American Theology testifies through dissonant accents the wondrous work of God among Asian American believers in North American contexts. The result may be a lot of perplexity and even 'What does this mean?' but also new possibilities for a revitalized church and witness anticipating the justice and shalom of the coming divine reign.”
Early Interracial Oneness Pentecostalism
History & Biography
“If 'the color line was washed away in the blood!' at Azusa Street, then its effects were felt longest and strongest in Indianapolis and other circles of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. If so, then G. T. Haywood is not merely William J. Seymour's successor but emerges as the exemplary architect of the modern pentecostal vision that the Spirit has been poured out on all flesh--white and black--equally. Additionally intriguing--even disturbing for some--perhaps his Oneness theology is not just about the Godhead and Jesus-name baptism but about one God and one people beyond the color line. Readers will have to wrestle with this idea between the lines of Early Interracial Oneness Pentecostalism.”
Science & Faith
“‘Trinitarian theology as a “theory of everything”’!? Unlike Raimon Panikkar or David Bohm, Ross Hastings’ vision of triune coinherence between reality and our faithful knowledge of it is deeply rooted in the classical Christian tradition. Here, historic orthodoxy meets late modern science in a mutually indwelling and illuminating encounter.”
Educational Ministry in the Logic of the Spirit
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Here we see the mature vision of Loder’s pneumatological and trinitarian theology of human redemption and transformation . . . read in an educational key. Loder’s witness to the Spirit that leads to all truth thus finds amplification through Wright’s efforts and will be of interest to all those who not only believe that Christian education ought to make a difference, but also want to know more about how that difference happens.”
Embracing the Past—Forging the Future
Theology
“Every Christian tradition that seeks to be viable for the twenty-first century will have to do what these younger Wesleyan theologians attempt in this volume: embrace their past while forging a plausible future. Wesleyans will argue with each other about the proposals herein, but that is precisely why books like these are necessary and how traditions are forged.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“David Fitch can write this book not just because he has a heart for mission, but because he has attended faithfully to the presence of the Spirit of the living Christ poured out on all flesh. If you want to know more about Spirit-empowered mission, read this book. But be careful, as it will transform—discipline, even!—your life, your family, and your church according to the shape of the coming reign of God.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In 1926 Karl Adam commented that Barth’s Römerbrief of 1919 ‘fell like a bombshell on the playground of theologians.’ I predict that Levison’s Filled with the Spirit will similarly explode in the field of those laboring on a theology of the spirit. . . . The question is not if but to what degree biblical scholars, dogmaticians, and systematicians working in pneumatology will need to rethink their task after this radical book.”
World Religions
“Formative years in the Vineyard movement taught Jennifer Rosner to bear testimonial witness to Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This book testifies of her loves—of Yonah, her husband (theologians fall in love too!), of Jesus the Messiah (here a Jewish person is grasped by his love!), and of historic and contemporary Jewish faith and practice (how one can fall in love with the tradition one was raised in all over again!). Spoiler alert: Christians and Jews, including theologians from both faiths, who read this book will need to be prepared to be challenged by Rosner's powerful theological narrative that cuts right to the core of the biblical message!”
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Evangelism & Missions
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